"Mary Tourtel Mary Tourtel (born Mary Caldwell on 28 January 187415 March 1948) was an English artist and creator of the comic strip Rupert Bear. Her works have sold 50 million copies internationally. Tourtel was born Mary Caldwell, the youngest child of Samuel Caldwell, a stained-glass artist and stonemason, and his wife Sarah. Mary studied art under Thomas Sidney Cooper at the Sidney Cooper School of Art in Canterbury (now the University for the Creative Arts), and became a children's book illustrator. In 1900 she married an assistant editor of ""The Daily Express"", Herbert Bird Tourtel, at Eton. Rupert Bear"
"Rupert Bear Rupert Bear is a children's comic strip character created by the English artist Mary Tourtel and first appearing in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper on 8 November 1920. Rupert's initial purpose was to win sales from the rival ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Mirror"". In 1935, the mantle of Rupert artist and storyteller was taken over by Alfred Bestall, who was previously an illustrator for ""Punch"" and other glossy magazines. Bestall proved to be successful in the field of children's literature and worked on Rupert stories and artwork into his 90s. More recently, various other artists and writers have continued"
"Tourtel, an assistant editor of the ""Daily Express"". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the ""Daily Express"" was in competition with ""The Daily Mail"" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the ""Daily Mirror"". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first (""Daily Express"", 8 November 1920): The title"
"Minor comics by Hergé Hergé, the Belgian comics author best known for ""The Adventures of Tintin"", also created a number of short-lived, lesser-known comic strips. ""L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet"" (""The Extraordinary Adventure of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet"") was a comic strip drawn by Hergé but written by a sports reporter. It was about a boy, his friend, his little sister and her toy inflatable pig. It was published in ""Le Petit Vingtième"" from November 1, 1928, to March 7, 1929. The series was published in text comics format, but despite putting text below the images"
"cartoon ""Trick or Treat"" (1952), which featured a good-natured witch squaring off with Donald Duck. Enamored of the character's voice characterization, provided by June Foray, Jones developed his own Witch Hazel character for the Bugs Bunny short ""Bewitched Bunny"" (1954). The story retells the fairy tale about ""Hansel and Gretel"", and naturally, Witch Hazel plays the witch who tries to cook and eat the children. Bugs Bunny witnesses her coaxing the children inside and saves the youths from Witch Hazel's clutches as the Masked Avenger is not around. However, once the witch realizes that Bugs is a rabbit, she chases"
"The Adventures of Totor The Adventures of Totor, Chief Scout of the Cockshafers () is the first comic strip series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, who later came to notability as the author of ""The Adventures of Tintin"" series. It was serialised monthly from July 1926 to summer 1929 in Belgian scouting magazine ""Le Boy Scout Belge"", with a nine month break in 1927. The plot synopsis revolved around the eponymous Totor, a Belgian boy scout who travels to visit his aunt and uncle in Texas, United States. Once there, he comes across hostile Native American tribes and gangsters, each"
"on the idea. Beginning a series of newspaper supplements in late 1928, Wallez founded a supplement for children, ""Le Petit Vingtième"" (""The Little Twentieth""), which subsequently appeared in ""Le XXe Siècle"" every Thursday. Carrying strong Catholic and fascist messages, many of its passages were explicitly anti-semitic. For this new venture, Hergé illustrated ""L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet"" (""The Extraordinary Adventure of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet""), a comic strip authored by one of the paper's sport columnists, which told the story of two boys, one of their little sisters, and her inflatable rubber pig. Hergé was unsatisfied,"
"wanted to write and draw his own cartoon strip. Hergé already had experience creating comic strips. From July 1926 he had written a strip about a boy scout patrol leader titled ""Les Aventures de Totor C.P. des Hannetons"" (""""The Adventures of Totor, Scout Leader of the Cockchafers"""") for the Scouting newspaper (""""The Belgian Boy Scout""""). The character of Totor was a strong influence on Tintin; Hergé described the latter as being like Totor's younger brother. Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier stated that graphically, Totor and Tintin were ""virtually identical"" except for the scout uniform, also noting many similarities between their respective"
"she worked under the name ""Marge"" and had a syndicated comic strip, ""The Boy Friend"", her first syndicated comic strip, which ran from 1925 through 1926. This and another strip of hers, ""Dashing Dot"", both featuring female leads. Marge was friends with ""Oz"" author Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated her fantasy novel ""King Kojo"" (1933). In 1934 ""The Saturday Evening Post"" requested Buell to create a strip to replace Carl Anderson's ""Henry"". Buell created a little girl character in place of ""Henry""s little boy as she believed ""a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a boy"
"redheaded children that became her trademark, namely, Shabby O'Hair, his sister Raggy Muffin, and their plump mother, M'Lady O'Hair. Franz Goebel, of the W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik company, took a liking to her artwork and invited her to his German production facility. Working with master sculptor Arthur Moeller, they designed the first figurine, entitled ""Strike"", in 1957. Between 1957 and 1988, when the series was discontinued, more than 100 different figurines were created. The line included both redhead and blonde children. The redhead figurines, as they are known, are mischievous characters, whereas the blondes tend to portray more serene characteristics. Charlot"
"Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic... Rupert Bear: Follow the Magic... is a children's television series based on the Mary Tourtel character, Rupert Bear. Aimed at pre-school children, the show is part stop motion, part computer-generated imagery. Rupert Bear still wears his trademark bright yellow plaid trousers and matching scarf, with a red jumper. Rupert has brown fur once again, just as he was originally drawn in 1920: when he appeared as a cartoon character in the Daily Express, they economised on ink by printing him white. It was broadcast on Five from 8 November to 20 November 2006, as part"
"Flower from a wicked witch, breaking the sleeping spell. He also meets a friend, and companion in Toby's later adventures, Peter or Pete the Penguin, who is actually an impulsive black and white penguin about half the size of Toby, and, unlike Toby, wears no clothing. Sheila Hodgetts is reported (by Hockley) as recalling that she had grown up loving Mary Tourtel's ""Daily Express"" newspaper comic strip character, Rupert Bear. To recognise the parallels between Toby Twirl and Rupert Bear, it is useful to consider this in some detail. Mary Tourtel (1874-1948) was a children's illustrator, married to Herbert Bird"
"I know this is not serious."""" An artist named Stoko created a comic series titled ""Les Nouvelles Aventures de Rotor: C.P. des Hameçons"" (""The New Adventures of Rotor: Patrol Leader of the Hooks""). The Adventures of Totor The Adventures of Totor, Chief Scout of the Cockshafers () is the first comic strip series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, who later came to notability as the author of ""The Adventures of Tintin"" series. It was serialised monthly from July 1926 to summer 1929 in Belgian scouting magazine ""Le Boy Scout Belge"", with a nine month break in 1927. The plot synopsis"
"Phoebe and Her Unicorn Phoebe and Her Unicorn is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Dana Simpson. Originally called Heavenly Nostrils, the strip debuted as a webcomic on April 22, 2012, in Universal Uclick's GoComics website. It was later launched in more than 100 newspapers on March 30, 2015, under the current name. The strip begins when 9-year-old Phoebe Howell, a girl in the fourth grade, skips a rock across a pond and accidentally hits a unicorn in the face. Freed from her own reflection, the unicorn—named Marigold Heavenly Nostrils—gives Phoebe one wish, which she decides to use by"
"first strip) a beagle, Snoopy. The first addition, Violet, was made on February 7, 1951. Other character introductions that soon followed were Schroeder, on May 30, 1951, as a baby; Lucy, on March 3, 1952; Lucy's baby brother Linus, on September 19, 1952 (after his existence was first mentioned on July 14); and Pig-Pen, on July 13, 1954. Though the strip did not have a lead character at first, it soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, a character developed from some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In early strips, Charlie Brown was depicted as distinctly younger"
"Tootle Tootle () is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely in 1945. It is part of Simon & Schuster's Little Golden Books series. As of 2001, it was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children's book in English. The protagonist is Tootle, a baby locomotive attending train school. Tootle hopes to grow up to be the Flyer on the New York-Chicago route. His schoolwork includes tasks such as stopping at red flags and pulling a dining car without spilling the soup. His most important lesson is that he must always stay on the rails. Bill,"
"Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993), whose work appeared under the name ""Marge"", had created two comic strips in the 1920s: ""The Boy Friend"" and ""Dashing Dot"", both with female leads. She first had Little Lulu published in a single-panel cartoon in ""The Saturday Evening Post"" on February 23, 1935, in which Lulu appears as a flower girl at a wedding and strews the aisle with banana peels. The ""Little Lulu"" strip replaced the strip ""Henry"" in the magazine; the ""Post"" requested a similar strip from Buell, and Buell created a little girl character in place of ""Henry""s little boy as she"
"Big Little Books dating from 1932-1970s. These books were donated in 1986 by Duane Siers from his personal collection. These books were first published by the Whitman Company in 1932. The Big Little Books are 4 1/2 inches high and 3 3/4 inches wide and contain black and white illustrations with color covers. The books are based on comic strips, movies, radio shows, and children's classics and feature characters like Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Blondie, Dagwood, Little Orphan Annie, Mickey Mouse, Tom Mix, and Tarzan. Bienes Museum Comic Books Collection. This collection features approximately 2,400 vintage comic books dating from"
"The Story of Miss Moppet The Story of Miss Moppet is a tale about teasing, featuring a kitten and a mouse, that was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co for the 1906 Christmas season. Potter was born in London in 1866, and between 1902 and 1905 published a series of small format children's books with Warne. In 1906, she experimented with an atypical panorama design for ""Miss Moppet"", which booksellers disliked; the story was reprinted in 1916 in small book format. Miss Moppet, the story's eponymous main character, is a kitten teased"
"""Toots and Casper"" silent comedy film shorts with Cullen Johnson as Buttercup and George Gray as Casper's boss. The strip gave rise to a much recited jump-rope rhyme: Toots and Casper Toots and Casper was a long-run family comic strip by Jimmy Murphy, distributed to newspapers for 37 years by King Features Syndicate, from 1918 to 1956, resulting in many merchandising tie-ins, including books, dolls, paper dolls, pins, bisque nodders and comic books. Comics historian Coulton Waugh commented on the strip's portrait of a happy, idealized family life: ""Like ""Blondie"", Toots is the picture of contentment, and if all homes"
"the precocious, insightful and socially/politically-aware child as the only speaker and the beautiful adult woman as a sometime pin-up figure and fashion mannequin. In 1950, the ""Courier"" began an eight-page color comics insert, where Ormes re-invented her Torchy character in a new comic strip, ""Torchy in Heartbeats"". This Torchy was a beautiful, independent woman who finds adventure while seeking true love. Ormes expressed her talent for fashion design as well as her vision of a beautiful black female body in the accompanying Torchy Togs paper doll cut outs. The strip is probably best known for its last episode in 1954,"
"Dolly Dimples (comic strip) Dolly Dimples was a syndicated comic strip character created by early American female cartoonist Grace Drayton who appeared in various William Randolph Hearst/King Features Syndicate publications. Over the period 1903 to 1933 she was known by the various names ""Toodles"" (1903–1904), ""Dottie Dimple"" (1908–1911), ""Dimples"" (1914–1918), and finally ""Dolly Dimples"" (1928–1933). King Features' archivist dates the character's debut as March 22, 1903, although at that point she was called Toodles, as part of the strip ""Naughty Toodles"", which ran from 1903 to 1904. An analog character appeared in two non-Hearst strips, ""The Adventures of Dolly Drake"
"two children have caught measles as well (p. 88). The first, bound edition appeared from Brockhampton Press in 1969. The same illustrations were used for a Dutch translation. The second English edition in 1977 came from Hodder in hardback and paperback, and the third was a paperback from the Hamlyn series Beaver Books in 1980, with illustrations by John Spiers. The Snowball (children's novel) The Snowball (first published 1969) is a fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and"
"Ann Turner Cook Ann Turner Cook (born November 20, 1926) is an American mystery novelist, who was the model for the familiar Gerber Baby artwork seen on baby food packages of the Gerber Products Company. Cook is the daughter of syndicated cartoonist Leslie Turner, who drew the comic strip ""Captain Easy"" for decades. Their neighbor was the artist Dorothy Hope Smith, who did a charcoal drawing of Ann when she was five months old. In 1928, when Gerber announced it was looking for baby images for its upcoming line of baby food, Smith's drawing was submitted and subsequently chosen. It"
"and Paul ""Jam"" Jamin. In January 1930, Hergé introduced ""Quick & Flupke"" (""Quick et Flupke""), a new comic strip about two street kids from Brussels, in the pages of ""Le Petit Vingtième"". At Wallez's direction, in June he began serialisation of the second Tintin adventure, ""Tintin in the Congo"", designed to encourage colonial sentiment towards the Belgian Congo. Authored in a paternalistic style that depicted the Congolese as childlike idiots, in later decades it would be accused of racism; however, at the time it was un-controversial and popular, with further publicity stunts held to increase sales. For the third adventure,"
"contributing illustrations to Scouting magazines, developing his first comic series, ""The Adventures of Totor"", for ""Le Boy-Scout Belge"" in 1926. Working for the conservative Catholic newspaper ""Le Vingtième Siècle"", he created ""The Adventures of Tintin"" in 1929 on the advice of its editor Norbert Wallez. Revolving around the actions of boy reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, the series' early installments – ""Tintin in the Land of the Soviets"", ""Tintin in the Congo"", and ""Tintin in America"" – were designed as conservative propaganda for children. Domestically successful, after serialisation the stories were published in book form, with Hergé continuing the"
"Barnaby (comics) Barnaby was a comic strip which began 20 April 1942 in the newspaper ""PM"" and was later syndicated in 64 American newspapers (for a combined circulation of more than 5,500,000). Created by Crockett Johnson, who is best known today for his children's book ""Harold and the Purple Crayon"", the strip featured a cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic fairy godfather, Jackeen J. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. With a distinctive appearance because of its use of typography, the strip had numerous reprints and was adapted into a 1940s stage production. The usually caustic Dorothy Parker"
"by children for generations, even having her own app and a crowd of friends on Facebook. Cirkeline appears in the following animated feature-length films: In 2002, Post Danmark (the Danish postal service) made four postage stamp featuring Danish comic book characters. The stamps featured Cirkeline, Valhalla, Rasmus Klump, and Jungledyret Hugo. Cirkeline Cirkeline (Eng: Circleen) is a Danish comic book character, created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957. The character is a little elf with spiky black hair, who wears a red dress with black dots and prefers walking barefoot. Between 1968 and 1971 the comic was adapted for a series"
"narrated by Bernard Cribbins were in regular broadcast rotation across the UK. Tufty Fluffytail, a childlike red squirrel character, was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills to introduce clear and simple safety messages to children. The success of the character led to the creation in 1961 of the Tufty Club for children under five years of age. Under its auspices more than 30,000 Tufty books about road safety were issued to parents. At its peak there were nearly 25,000 branches of the Tufty Club throughout the UK, and by the early 1970s an estimated two million children were members. The"
"Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme (cf. Cherchez la femme), a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and satirized, among other things, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist demagogy (in the form of a shotgun-wielding badger named ""Simple J. Malarkey"") and the sectarian and dogmatic behavior of communists in the form of two comically doctrinaire cowbirds. The setting for Pogo and his friends was"
"Toots and Casper Toots and Casper was a long-run family comic strip by Jimmy Murphy, distributed to newspapers for 37 years by King Features Syndicate, from 1918 to 1956, resulting in many merchandising tie-ins, including books, dolls, paper dolls, pins, bisque nodders and comic books. Comics historian Coulton Waugh commented on the strip's portrait of a happy, idealized family life: ""Like ""Blondie"", Toots is the picture of contentment, and if all homes were like these, the American Dream would be nearly realized."" It began as a gag-a-day strip but soon settled into a successful pattern of serialized stories of romance"
"another annual. This was a lesser-known children's annual from c1924-26 that featured a glass mirror inset into the front cover and was published by Middleton Publications, London. The Teddy Tail story appears in the last one from c. 1926 in the 'boy with a monocle' cover edition. Folkard left the paper soon after, and the strip concluded its first incarnation. In April 1933 Teddy Tail was revived by the ""Daily Mail"", with new drawings by Herbert Sydney Foxwell (1890–1943) who was already known as a cartoon illustrator having drawn ""Tiger Tim"" since the mid-1920s for the Amalgamated Press, later known"
"Raggedy Ann Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose. Johnny Gruelle received US Patent D47789 for his Raggedy Ann doll on September 7, 1915. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book ""Raggedy Ann Stories"". When a doll was marketed with the book, the concept had great success. A sequel, ""Raggedy Andy Stories"" (1920), introduced"